Notes

1. Next Action: A single-file Getting Things Done tool

If you're looking for a fast, simple TODO manager, check out
Next Action by Trim
Path. It's a single-page application with a built-in editor, and all
you need is Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or later. (IE 6.0 will also somewhat
work.)

Try it out! If you like how it encourages you to think of your tasks
in terms of the context, search the Net
for more information about David Allen's "Getting Things Done" method.

火災で全てのコンピューターデイスクが駄目になってしまった時、会社はもうお手上げの状況だった。 The company was really up shit creek when a fire destroyed all their computer discs.

2. Also from Trim Path: Javascript MVC framework

Junction brings the
power of the Ruby on Rails web MVC framework to JavaScript. It
makes it much easier to develop web-based applications that runs,
validate input, process data, and produce output in modern web
browsers like Mozilla Firefox. Well worth looking into!

3. semi-form letters: hooray for open source!

I needed to write 31 thank-you-for-attending-my-send-off-party e-mail
messages. Instead of having a generic letter that I'd send to lots of
people all listed in To: or Bcc:, I decided to personalize it a bit by
including their nicknames, two-year goals, and a personal message I'd
add to each letter in different places.

Fortunately, my mail client was up to the task. One of the benefits of
having both your contact information and your mail client in an
easily-programmable environment is that you can hack together a quick
program to do exactly what you want.

I had typed everyone's two-year-plans into my contact information
manager's Notes field following a special format. It was the work of a
few minutes to record and run a macro that extracted the data and
created a signature for each person who attended my send-off party.

I then wrote a couple of short functions that looped over the
currently displayed contact records and drafted messages for each of
them following a template.

This resulted in 31 drafts I could edit and send without hassles. Much
fun!

For future reference (and for the handful of Emacs geeks or learners
in the audience), here's the code I used to make it all happen:

I used M-x local-set-key to bind sacha/bbdb-send-form-mail to M. * M
then applies the function to all displayed records.
../emacs/miniedit.el makes it easy to edit long strings in the
minibuffer, and that made the template much easier to write.

Emacs totally rocks. Nothing else has ever given me this much power.

自動車製造は人間の労働者に代わって、コンピューターが組み込まれたロボットによって行われている。 Car manufacturing is carried out by computer-programmed robots in place of human workers.

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